In other words, the fiscal year 2018 budget should maintain the status quo, dating back to 2014. The reason this decision felt especially gratifying to pot boosters is the fact that Sessions had written his old colleagues in the Senate last month, imploring them not to extend these protections.

Most metals are metallic grey or silvery white whereas gold is characteristically a metallic yellow colour, in other words gold-coloured. The gold colour seems related to relativistic effects of the outermost gold orbitals.